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Reddit plans to restrict content to logged-in users to deter scrapers

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co-founder Steve Huffman announced that the platform will gradually become a logged-in service, offering limited access to unauthenticated visitors to counter scrapers. The article gives no timeline, technical details or CVE-related information. Defenders relying on anonymous Reddit data collection or scraping should expect access restrictions and review their collection methods.

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